16 October 2012

These two apartments were occupied just last year. They are very small and primitive efficiency apartments with gas space heaters, gas stove, tiny metal kitchen sink, kitchen table, dresser and bed. There were 18 of these in this one building, which may be rehabbed into 8 larger apartments.

This here is the smallest. What you see is the entire apartment, except a very small toilet room off to the left.

Here is a cheap enameled metal kitchen sink on wood supports. This sink at least 80 years old.

This is the largest apartment, up in the top floor. They were rented furnished:

It would be cool to preserve a few of these apartments in Over the Rhine for use as a museum like the Low East Side Tenament Museum in New York. It's not pretty in a lot of ways but it is part of the history of the neighborhood.